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Search Results for Cancer
Abstract Number: 867
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 65-year-old male presented to the emergency department with a 5-week history of epigastric pain, nausea, constipation and weight loss. Past medical history was significant for combined liver and kidney transplant 3 years prior due to hepatitis C cirrhosis and hepatorenal syndrome. Chronic immunosuppression consisted of mycophenolate mofetil, tacrolimus and prednisone. Laboratory studies […]
Abstract Number: 870
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Patient is a 29 year old male with no significant past medical history who presented for evaluation of worsening shortness of breath and headaches over one month. He had also lost 15 pounds and was experiencing night sweats and significant fatigue. He required ICU admission for hypoxic respiratory failure. CT chest showed multiple […]
Abstract Number: 901
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 43-year-old Caucasian woman with stage IV rectal adenocarcinoma metastatic to liver and lung presented with new onset generalized tonic clonic seizures. She was receiving her second line treatment with 5-FU continuous infusion Day number 7 of 7 of the 5th cycle. This was preceded by confusion and altered mentation since the previous […]
Abstract Number: 922
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 49-year old man presented to the emergency department (ED) with dizziness and lethargy. He had a history of hypertension, anemia, and pilomatrix carcinoma (PC), a rare cutaneous malignancy. This was diagnosed one year prior and treated with wide excision with negative margins. He was lost to follow up for 7 months prior […]
Abstract Number: A12
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Long-term central venous access devices (CVADs) are integral to cancer care provision. Despite the high prevalence of CVAD occlusion in children with cancer, strategies to prevent occlusive events are understudied. We aimed to test the safety and feasibility of conducting a randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing heparinised saline, with normal saline (0.9% sodium chloride) […]
Abstract Number: A41
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 45-year-old Vietnamese female with history of H. pylori who presented with worsening nausea, vomiting, epigastric abdominal pain and early satiety. Patient reported her epigastric pain had been intermittent for the past six months but had acutely worsen in the last two weeks. There were no initial inciting events that triggered these symptoms. […]
Abstract Number: B28
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 51-year-old female with no significant medical history presented to the hospital after a ground-level fall with severe thoracic back pain, paresthesia, paresis of both lower extremities and urinary incontinence. Exam revealed thoracic spine tenderness, bilateral diminished sensation up to two inches above the umbilicus and 1/5 bilateral lower extremity strength. Spinal MRI […]
Abstract Number: B44
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 68-year-old woman presented with a small, right-sided neck lump, without any compressive symptoms. She reported the size of the lump had been constant for 7 years and denied hyper or hypothyroidism symptoms. No known family history of thyroid, pheochromocytoma or calcium disorder was noted. Past medical history showed hypertension.Her neck examination showed […]
Abstract Number: D14
SHM Converge 2022
Background: United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends clinicians provide smoking cessation counseling and interventions to all smokers and lung cancer screening with low dose CT scan for high-risk individuals. We aimed to determine the prevalence of smoking cessation counseling and lung cancer screening rate at the residents’ clinic and implement a multimodal plan to […]
Abstract Number: F28
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 37-year-old man with type 2 diabetes mellitus presented with an episode of bifrontal and retro-orbital headache, left-sided upper extremity and facial numbness, generalized weakness, and dysarthria. The patient reported similar symptoms one week prior to presentation that lasted 12 hours, and which were accompanied by syncope. Over the past month, the patient […]